Scout Outdoors Challenge Award Badge

How to earn your badge:

• Take an active part in at least eight nights away as a Scout.
  • Four of the nights should be camping.
• With others, pitch and strike your tent.
• Lead, or help to lead, a group of Scouts to set up a well-organised site.
  • It should include sleeping tents, food and equipment stores, a fire or stove, kitchen and eating area.
• Prepare and light an open fire or set up a suitable stove.
• Understand the three points of the Countryside Code.
• Find out why personal and campsite hygiene is important.
• Using knots that you have learned, build a simple pioneering project, object or camp gadget.
• Explore the environment of your camp and make sure you know where everything is.
• Find out what accidents and incidents can happen outdoors or during your camp.
  • Show how you would deal with them.
• Show how to use an axe, saw or knife safely.
  • You can choose any or all of these tools.
• Complete at least four of these tasks:
  • Provide a service commitment to the site for about an hour.
  • Take part in a wide game.
  • Take part in a campfire or other entertainment.
  • Working with others, successfully complete a two-hour activity or project.
  • Plan a balanced menu for a short camp.
  • Lead the cooking of a meal for the group.
  • Show that you know the safety precautions for using lamps and stoves.
  • Cook a backwoods meal with the group.
  • Build a bivouac and sleep in it.
  • Show how to pack a rucksack correctly, with appropriate kit for the camp or event.